Yeah, used to live in a house that looked out onto it. Nice park. Peaceful & all.

As others have said, some of the area round there is a bit sketchy; big estate between loughborough junction station & it, which looks threatening, though I never had any trouble at all, & a slightly edgy stretch of Brixton road to the other side. Not too terrible tho'... no worse than many other areas, & you're nice & close to various forms of transport etc. This is assuming you're thinking of living there... if you're just thinking of going to the park, go for it! 'Tis nice.

It's a very quiet oasis compared to much of east Brixton and Camberwell.

I think the Park's friends group is part of the Minet Conservation Association - IMO they used to be obsessed to restoring at vast expense it to some imaginary state of Victorian niceness and quietness.

I think there is now more pressure for usable play facilities as well as Victorian bedding displays, and this is informing the current lottery bid.

North Lambeth News Summer 2004 said:

The local Myatt’s Fields Park Project Group has won a Heritage
Lottery Fund Project Planning Grant of £50,000. The award will
help pay for a Conservation Management Plan for the park, as
well as an access, audience and training plan. By the end of this
year the group hopes to apply for a much larger sum of money to
fund long-term regeneration.

Plans include restoring its bandstand, roundhouse shelter and
other Victorian features, building a new one o’clock club and
playground, improving the sports amenities and developing a nature
garden with wooden structures for children and benches for the
elderly. Another exciting feature is the proposed new café with
community rooms, which can be used for social and educational
activities and provide a meeting place for local residents.

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Obviously having an articulate, middle class group interested in your local park pays off...

Lambeth Press Release (September 2005?) said:

£1.5 million Lottery cash for Myatt's Fields Park

Local residents are celebrating the news that the Heritage Lottery Fund has granted an award of £1.5m for the restoration of Myatt’s Fields Park. The money (which has been granted a Stage 1 pass) has been earmarked for major restorations and will be reserved by the Heritage Lottery Fund for the project while plans to restore and improve the park are further refined.

The project to regenerate the park has been developed in close partnership With Lambeth Council and local people forming a newly constituted organisation called the Myatt’s Fields Park Project Group, in 2003.

Plans for the regeneration of Myatt’s Fields Park include restoring the bandstand and other Victorian features, building a new One O’clock club, improving the sports facilities and developing a wildlife garden. There will also be a new refreshment facility with a community room that will be used for social and educational activities.
...
Plans to renovate the park began three years ago when a group of local mothers met in the park to talk about improving the playground. They formed the Myatt’s Fields Park Project Group together with other local residents. They have been meeting ever since.

Myatt’s Fields Park was recently awarded more than £700K from Lambeth’s Opportunities Funds. This money will match HLF funding to create a brighter future for this much loved park”.

Rhurbarb aside no, I don't think I would live round that way (I hope I'm not getting Myatts Field are confused with somewhere else though)

I'm only 10 mins up the road on the Herne Hill side of CHL, but I've had mates that have lived near Myatts Field, and there seemed to be regular accounts of being broken into, or attempted break ins and countless tales of mindless vandalism (cars being burnt, phoneboxes trashed etc). As mentioned earlier in this thread, Myatts Fields itself is very nice, but is surrounded by some v rough estates, and I've seen many dodgy incidents walking down to Jamm around there.

I certainly wouldn't go out in the area on my own after dark. And I'm well 'ard. Or something.

According to the Standard's "mugging map" of London earlier this week, Vassall Ward, which includes Myatts fields, does have an alarmingly high level of street crime, given that it doesn't contain a tube or railway station crime "hotspot".

A few years ago, I'd have said it was mostly opportunistic mobile phone theft of people walking from Oval tube to catch buses on Brixton Road/Camberwell New Road while waving flash phones. Given the overall drop in street crime in Lambeth, I'm not so sure what's happening at the moment.

It's a bit, well, family friendly for my tastes. Lots of kids ramping around, and 3 wheeled buggies a go-go. And people in there who make me a bit cross for no go reason (I suspect this is more to do with me, than the bar though!) AND the Stella is a bit on the rubbish side.

I like living in SE24. It's far enough out of Brixton for a nice bit of quiet (I'm getting on and like that sorta thing) but close enough to walk to.

Nice and handy for Brockwell Park for the dog, an' all, although Ruskin Park is even closer and has it's own charms. The biggest down side about SE24 is lack of decent boozer.

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I'm very happy with my bit of SE24 (Poet's Corner), especially now our neighbour had chucked her eldest out and 'da yoot' with their noisy fucking motorbikes have disappeared. It's slap-bang in the middle between Brixton and Herne Hill, with all the benefits of both. Only a hop, skip and jump to Brockwell Park, as well.

As for pubs, the Albert and the Commercial are both a few minutes away.

Myatts Field had (still has? Haven't been there for years) a strange little round "waiting room" structure with wooden benches in a circular formation arojnd the centre. What was odd about it was that the thing seemed to be always locked closed.

Myatts Field had (still has? Haven't been there for years) a strange little round "waiting room" structure with wooden benches in a circular formation arojnd the centre. What was odd about it was that the thing seemed to be always locked closed.

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It was closed when I was there - probably to keep the junkies out, I'd imagine.